I'm experiencing an annoying issue with Fireworks CS3.
Immediate use of the application is not available after its opened.
Meaning, clicking on the application menu more than once returns a
message in the title bar, &quot;Adobe Fireworks CS3 (Not
Responding)&quot;, and it hangs there at least 30 seconds or so
until it's ready to be used. And this is even having Windows Aero
disabled.

I recently formatted my computer and have minimal programs
installed. Here's an overview:

Thank you for your feedback. The software I listed is what I
had installed up to the time I sent the cry for help :) I had just
reformatted my hard drive. Since then, I installed the latest
antivirus software NOD32 x64. As for the firewall, being that I
work from home I'm using the built-in Windows firewall that's on my
computer. I also want to point out that I am using satellite
internet. I know there's a latency issue with satellite, but I
doubt that would cause the problem. If memory serves me right,
wasn't there an issue with CS3 and one of the Office 2007
applications?

~Michael wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback. The software I listed is
what I had installed up
> to the time I sent the cry for help :) I had just
reformatted my hard drive.
> Since then, I installed the latest antivirus software
NOD32 x64. As for the
> firewall, being that I work from home I'm using the
built-in Windows firewall
> that's on my computer. I also want to point out that I
am using satellite
> internet. I know there's a latency issue with satellite,
but I doubt that would
> cause the problem. If memory serves me right, wasn't
there an issue with CS3
> and one of the Office 2007 applications? ~Michael

If there is such an issue, it hasn't affected me yet and I
upgraded to
Office 2007 a couple weeks ago on that machine. That has not
affected
Fireworks', Illustrator's, Flash's or Dreamweaver's
performance so far
(the CS3 apps I use most). I haven't used InDesign much in
that time but
it didn't seem to be slower either and I use Photoshop only
very
occasionally but I don't remember any issues there either.

I see you use NOD32 64-bit which is what I use as well (best
AV out
there by far...). I am behind a router so I do not use a
firewall. Did
you try turning the Windows firewall off and run Fireworks to
see if
that helps any?

Also, FWIW, my user account on that machine has full admin
privileges
and I have UAC turned off.

I disabled Windows Firewall and nothing changed. Prior to
formatting I did have Norton AV 2008 installed, and still
experienced the same issue with Fireworks. And yes, I'm the
administrator on the computer and UAC is off. I forgot to mention,
I'm only experiencing this issue with Fireworks. Everything else
opens blazingly fast.

~Michael wrote:
> I disabled Windows Firewall and nothing changed. Prior
to formatting I did have
> Norton AV 2008 installed, and still experienced the same
issue with Fireworks.
> And yes, I'm the administrator on the computer and UAC
is off. I forgot to
> mention, I'm only experiencing this issue with
Fireworks. Everything else opens
> blazingly fast. Michael

Clutching at straws here but my last bit of advice would be
to make sure
you have the latest NVidia drivers for your graphics card.
Other than
that I don't know what else to tell you except that Fireworks
works
great for me which of course doesn't help. Maybe a call to
support would
get you some more pointed advice are you certainly don't seem
to be
alone with this issue although it doesn't affect every Vista
user.

FWIW, before I got this machine last July (2007) I ran CS3 on
an aging
2001 AMD Athlon 1 GHz machine with 1 GB or Ram (running XP
Pro). While
no CS3 (or any other) application was blazingly fast,
Fireworks was no
worse than any other. The worst offender for me was
Illustrator.

There has to be a combination of hardware, drivers or memory
resident
apps that makes it worse for Fireworks somehow but these
kinds of issues
are the hadest to troubleshoot. That's why I think getting a
hold of
Adobe's official support may help as I hope they are
gathering data on
this to hopefully pinpoint a cause for the problem and may
have some
more meaningful advice than I or other users here may be able
to give.

I have a similar problem on the machine with specs below.
Just did a clean install of both XP and Vista in dual boot. Have
CS3 Master Collection and installed it on the Vista Partition. All
of the apps, but especially Pshop and Fireworks take a long time to
load. The Fireworks prescreen is partial at first and when my disk
light stops running it finally shows up and I can click on a menu.
The other apps I can usually do something except
Help>Registration thru Updates is greyed out. I originally had
everything in XP but got stuck with the wiggy disappearing save box
and couldn't fix it even with the 10 minute font fix or reinstall.
Have another copy of just Pshop on a laptop with Vista and works
fine so decided to try the Master Suite in Vista.

Thinking Microsoft Groove was the culprit, I decided to
uninstall that application from Office 2007. I later found it made
no difference.

This past weekend I decided to FORMAT again. I am determined
to diagnose and resolve this problem. Anyhow, this time I done
things different. After installing Windows Vista Business x64, I
installed just Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS3. I launched Fireworks
hoping it would open fast, but it didn't. It had to register it. So
after taking care of that message, I re-launched Fireworks. It
still opened slow.

As of today I have all what I need installed. Microsoft is
updated, applications have thier patches, and all drivers are
current. The problem still persist.

Did I mention Fireworks is the "only" application that opens
slooooooow? It did, however, improve with this last format. It now
takes 20 seconds before the menu options to become functional,
opposed to the previous 30 or more seconds.

I decided to reformat giving this one last attempt before
deciding to live with the issue of the menus not being clickable
soon after launching the application. What I done different was I
installed Windows Vista updates "after" installing all my software,
whereas before I would install all critical and all important
updates following a Windows installation. Here are my steps:

As for Windows recommended updates, I'm leaving them alone.
I'm thinking the problem I had is somewhere in recommended updates,
or maybe was related to having windows critical and important
updates installed first.